Jack Vance is one of the giants of science fiction and winner of Edgar and Hugo Awards. 'The Dragon Masters' was his first Hugo Award-winning novel, one of only fifty or more Hugo Award-winning novels, and thus a true SF classic.
Jack Vance has been central to the SF and fantasy worlds for half a century. Like Zelazny and Bester, he has had enduring appeal because his work was forward-thinking and radical for its time.
In 'The Dragon Masters', Vance develops several races of people and follows the life of a boy born into and growing up in a static, stratified society, in which he comes into conflict and is eventually driven into rebellion. "A Rebel Without a Cause" for an Alien world.
